Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921University of North Carolina Press, 1963 - 248 lappuses The violence and radicalism connected with the Industrial Workers of the World textile strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, left the popular impression that Lawrence was a slum-ridden city inhabited by un-American revolutionaries. Immigrant City is a study of Lawrence which reveals that the city was far different. The book opens with an account of the strike of 1912. It then traces the development of Lawrence from the founding of the city in 1845, when its builders hoped to establish a model mill town, through its years of immigration and growth of 1912. Donald Cole puts the strike in its proper perspective by examining the history of the city, and he emphasizes the immigrant's constant search for security and explores the very important question of whether the immigrant, from his own point of view, found security. The population of Lawrence was almost completely immigrant in nature; in 1910, 90 per cent of its people were either first or second generation Americans, and they represented nearly every nation in the world. The period covered by the book--1845 through 1921--is the great middle period of American immigration, which began with the Irish Famine and ended with the Quota Law of 1921. While Immigrant City concentrates on one American city, it reveals much about American immigration in general and demonstrates clearly that, in spite of the poverty that most immigrants fought, life for the foreign-born in America was not as grim as some writers have suggested. |
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The Shanty Irish 18501865 | 27 |
Decades of Promise 18651890 | 42 |
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Al-Wafa American Woolen Company anarchists Annual Report Anzeiger und Post April April 18 Arturo Giovannitti attacked Boston Evening Transcript British Bureau of Statistics Canada Carroll D Catholic Census of Mass Census of Massachusetts Census Office cent church City of Lawrence clubs Common Street death decades Democratic English Essex Eagle Ettor Father foreign-born French Canadians German gerrymander Giovannitti House Ibid immigrant city immigrant cycle Immigration Commission Ireland Irish Italian John Breen July June June 16 Know-Nothing Know-Nothing party Lawrence American Lawrence Courier Lawrence Journal Lawrence Sentinel Lawrence strike Lawrence Sun Lithuanian Marriages Massachusetts Merrimack mill workers nationality native native-born newspapers O'Reilly parade party percentage population Precinct Progrès Republican Sept social Society southeastern Europeans Statistics of Labor Strike at Lawrence strike of 1912 strikers Sunday Sun Syrian Textile Workers Total Tribune United States Census vote wages Ward Three Washington
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